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Addressing Capacity Challenges: Breaking down silos in the nutrition community

Fanzo, Jessica C.

Key messages
> Nutrition is a multi-temporal, multi-facted, multi-sectoral, multi-disciplinary issue, and there are many forms of mal-
nutrition that plague society.

> In this trans-disciplinary space, nutrition professionals need to be fluent in discussing the concepts and constructs
of other disciplines.
> Four challenges need to be dealt with in the near future:
1. We are trained to understand only our field of discipline, and those disciplines in and of themselves are complex.
2. We are not trained to think about other sectors or even more so, other systems.
3. We are not trained to think about how to work differently and in what timescale.
4. The nutrition community has its own silos and divisions that rarely cross paths.

> It is essential to jointly bridge the divides within the nutrition communities in order to answer complex challenges in order to address malnutrition in all its forms.

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Academic Units
International Research Institute for Climate and Society
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February 7, 2024